Meet the Press NOW — October 7

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration considers invoking the Insurrection Act amid its push to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities. One week into the government shutdown, President Trump weighs withholding backpay for federal workers who have been furloughed. Moshe Lavi, who’s brother-in-law remains in Hamas captivity, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss ongoing peace talks between Israel and Hamas and his plea to bring Omri Miran home two years after the October 7th attack.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, President Trump lashes out at Democrats, saying they are, quote, like
0:07.0	insurrectionists, and he floats invoking a 200-year-old law to expand his power to mobilize
0:13.3	the military and Democratic-run cities as the legal and political fight over troop deployments
0:19.1	escalates. Plus, shutdown day seven.
0:22.9	The White House ramps up its threats against furloughed federal workers, now suggesting
0:27.3	it could withhold their back pay, circumventing current law, amid the ongoing uncertainty
0:33.3	surrounding potential mass layoffs.
0:36.1	And from Washington to Tel Aviv,
0:38.6	the world marks two years since Hamas' horrific October 7th attack on Israel,
0:43.7	which plummeted Gaza and the region into a catastrophic war in humanitarian crisis.
0:49.4	As negotiators meet again to hammer out details of President Trump's peace plan.
1:05.6	Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where President
1:09.6	Trump and his team are escalating
1:11.3	their legal and political fight with Democrats, while seemingly laying the groundwork to invoke a
1:16.9	rarely used law from 1807 that gives the president emergency powers to defend the country against
1:23.9	a rebellion. It comes as the administration pushes for additional military deployments
1:29.3	into Democratic-run cities and tries to paint Democrats as literal insurrectionists.
1:35.6	Speaking in the Oval Office today while meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister,
1:39.1	President Trump once again refused to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act,
1:43.9	amid his effort to deploy the National Guard to cities like Portland and Chicago.
1:48.0	Can we talk about Portland for a second?
1:51.0	Are you planning to invoke the Insurrection Act?
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